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# OH it's a fag end.
For fuck sake I thought it was a smoking 3.5in disk.

*hits self on forehead*
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 21:54, archived)
# How very dare you
...............
(I helped save b3ta! The Twisted Omentum vidi vici veni, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 21:55, archived)
# What, smack myself?
I smack myself quite often.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 21:59, archived)
# it's not?
oh right, i see it now.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 21:57, archived)
# Yeah, see, I'm not mad.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 21:58, archived)
# Ah, I remember 3.5in disks.
They were like USB disks, except you just plug it in and it works straight away without drivers or 'Safe To Remove This Device' messages.

Ah, those were the days.
(I helped save b3ta! ArghZombies No longer has a Leaky QUIM, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 21:58, archived)
# Back when it was all simple.
But strangely, paint was much harder.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 21:58, archived)
# I dunno.
The 3.1 Paintbrush program had that handy eraser tool that would only erase a single colour you choose. That is a feature that I miss in MSPaint these days.
(I helped save b3ta! ArghZombies No longer has a Leaky QUIM, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:01, archived)
# Yeah but you try filling something in blue when you'd already made it orange.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:02, archived)
# I remember 5.25 inch discs
they were like 3.5 inch disks but were actually floppy and made more satisfying frisbees.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 21:59, archived)
# I remember the bigger ones.
But I don't think I ever used one.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:01, archived)
# But was it floppy?


(I helped save b3ta! Mstandot I suppose I should post more often., Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:01, archived)
# I can't remember this would have been when I was very ickle.
Edit: anyway, I'm off- tra people, be happy x
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:02, archived)
# I remember Datassette tapes
they were shit.
(I helped save b3ta! pzyko Query failed., Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:02, archived)
# Yeah, I got confused by thinking the 3.5 was a Hard Disk
and the 5.25 was a floppy.

I still remember 5.25 drives where they had the lever to close the drive and lock the disk in place.

I've still got Commander Keen on some 5.25s somewhere.
(I helped save b3ta! ArghZombies No longer has a Leaky QUIM, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:03, archived)
# i remember when 5.25 in discs
were a fantastic new thing
and you didn't need to wait for the tape to load
(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:06, archived)
# But my Dad made me all paranoid by telling me
that the disk would break forever if I even slightly touched the actual disk part through the hole.
(I helped save b3ta! ArghZombies No longer has a Leaky QUIM, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:10, archived)
# Did he also used to keep them
pinned to the side of a metal filing cabinet with a magnet?
(I helped save b3ta! Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:12, archived)
# When you can only get 1.44mb on a data saving device!
HOW. DID. WE. MANAGE?
(I helped save b3ta! Mstandot I suppose I should post more often., Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:01, archived)
# Because Porno was mostly stories in text format.
That's how.
(I helped save b3ta! ArghZombies No longer has a Leaky QUIM, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:03, archived)
# has that changed now then?
(Nobody Likes Mortal Wombat, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:17, archived)
# It wouldn't be possible to even fit half an mp3 on that
It would have to be zipped and disk spanned
(I helped save b3ta! davew27 hevosen kuva!, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:05, archived)
# Which would explain why they sold in pack of 100s!
Hang on! I buy DVDs in 100s!!

Tsk! Technology, eh?
(I helped save b3ta! Mstandot I suppose I should post more often., Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:08, archived)
# shhhh
I'm furiously wanking to pixels
(I helped save b3ta! pzyko Query failed., Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:11, archived)
# sadly when I started this computer malarky
I was using paper tape and punch cards... I still have a few punch cards somewhere
(I helped save b3ta! Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:10, archived)
# So do I...
...from an Amdahl Mainframe that finally went offline in 1988 at University of Leeds. I use it as notepaper.
(theSHALROTH Gaga's tits are on fucking fire!!!, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:16, archived)
# you use a decommissioned mainframe as notepaper?
hardcore :D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:53, archived)
# 1.44 Megabytes?!?
I have an Atari 810 Floppy Drive for my 800XL. It can store 88KB of data on a single 5.25" Diskette!!! feel the power....
(theSHALROTH Gaga's tits are on fucking fire!!!, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:14, archived)
# I have a 3.5 drive on my computer
It's most strange, I didn't know they existed now.

Oh well, now I can load my old civ1 saves which I put on disk if I want.
(I helped save b3ta! davew27 hevosen kuva!, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:03, archived)
# So did I.
:]
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:07, archived)
# BOO!
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 22:15, archived)